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Each week, Rafe Needleman rounds up a group of CNET News and Reviews editors to discuss in detail the biggest tech issues of the week, and predict the outcomes of ongoing technology market battles. This High Quality feed is playable on your Apple TV.
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| 1 | VideoReporters Roundtable: Ep. 109: What is Facebook going to do with all that money? | Facebook filed to go public this week. It plans to see $5 billion of stock. What will Facebook do with the money? Can it continue to hold off Google? Is mobile its next major battleground? This week on the Roundtable, Rafe discusses Facebook's future with Josh Constine from TechCrunch and Shervin Pishevar from Menlo Ventures. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoReporters Roundtable: Reporters' Roundtable: Why Klout matters | Rafe talks with one of Klout's early venture funders, Shervin Pishevar, and TechCrunch writer Josh Constine. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 108: Apple's China problem | iPhones, iPads, and most other small electronics are assembled in vast factories in China. Reports on working conditions at these plants are not favorable. Could Apple do more to improve conditions? Could the jobs be brought to the U.S. instead? And would consumers care either way? We discuss with New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg, and the author and performer of "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," Mike Daisey. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: NY Times responds to Apple memo | On Reporters' Roundtable hosted by CNET's Rafe Needleman, New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg responds to a memo to Apple employees from CEO Tim Cook regarding working conditions in Chinese factories that make Apple products. The memo came the same week Duhigg's co-written article, "In China, Human Costs are built into an iPad," was published in The New York Times. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 107: What SOPA hath wrought | The backlash against the SOPA and PIPA anti-copyright bills continues. Major sites took themselves offline. The U.S. government shut down MegaUpload. Anon launched a successful attack against government Web sites. All of these events are related, and the stories are still developing. That's what we're talking about today, with CNET experts Declan McCullagh, Greg Sandoval, and Elinor Mills. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 106: SOPA blacks out the Web | Today, several high-profile sites "blacked out" in protest of the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills. What effect are these actions having on the Web, and the legislation? We discuss with Declan McCullagh of CNET and Trevor Timm of the EFF. | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 105: CES, where new technology fights for deals. | There's more happening at CES than just big companies launching giant new product lines. Each year, startups vie for attention from consumer electronics partners and from investors who attend the show. Discussing this topic with Rafe Needleman: CNET's Paul Sloan and VC Josh Stein from DFJ. | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 104: Debating the CNET 100 | Fanboy fist-fight! CNET Reviews editor-in-chief Lindsey Turrentine and CNET executive editor John Falcone join Rafe in a debate over the best, worst, and most important tech products of 2011. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 103: The car as app platform | Forget tablets, forget smartphones. The real mobile platform that matters is the automobile. On this Roundtable, we discuss what's going into cars and how it's getting there, with CNET Car Tech co-host Brian Cooley and Ford product Manager Julius Marchwicki. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 102: Holiday tech buying update | We're in the middle of the holiday buying season right now, so it's a good time to talk about how the world has changed for gadget buyers--and sellers. Join us for a discussion with the New York Times' Claire Cain Miller and Decide.com CEO Mike Fridgen. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 101: The rise of the connected consumer | We are in the middle of a revolution in consumer commerce. We use our social networks to get advice from friends and mobile devices to scan prices at stores in real-time. How are retailers going to deal with the new consumer come Black Friday? Join Brian Solis, author of The End of Busienss as Usual, in conversation with Rafe Needleman | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep 100: 11 predictions for 11/11/11 | Special guest Tom Merritt joins Rafe Needleman on the 100th episode of the Roundtable to argue over 11 tech predictions for the next 11 years. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 99: The RIAA defends SOPA in the fight over content rights | Is SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, going to kill the Internet? Or is it the law we need to keep content providers in business? We discuss the controversy with RIAA Senior Executive Vice President Mitch Glazier, and CNET commentator Larry Downes. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 98: Can Nokia come back from the dead? | Nokia once ruled the mobile phone business. But it has never made a successful smartphone for the U.S. market. Nokia just released two Lumia smartphones running the Windows Phone OS. Will they reverse Nokia's misfortune? Join Rafe Needleman's discussion with CNET experts Jessica Dolcourt, Jay Greene, and Roger Cheng. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 97: Frontiers in search | And you thought search was done. Startups and upstarts keep trying to chip away at Google. From Microsoft to MC Hammer, there are challengers coming from everywhere. Today we talk about them, with guests Paul Sloan and Harry McCracken of CNET News, and Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive and former CEO of Ask.com | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 95: Bring your own technology | On today's show: How to sneak personal technology into your workplace. Or, put more respectably, the "Consumerization of Inormation Technology." Our guests: Fritz Nelson, Editor-at-large for Byte, and Tom Gillis, VP at Cisco. | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 95: Guy Kawasaki on what we learned from Steve Jobs | There are several life lessons in the way Steve Jobs started Apple, then left, came back, ran the company, launched products, and disrupted several industries. All of us in technology--or indeed in any business--can learn from them. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 94: Amazon Fires straight at Apple | We're in the middle of an exciting news cycle: Amazon is going after Apple's tablet business with its $199 Kindle Fire. And Apple is hosting a big iOS press announcement on October 4. How are the companies squaring off? Join Rafe and a panel of CNET experts to discuss. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 93: Netflix, Dish, and Facebook rewrite the video marketplace | It's been a big news week for video and movies on the Web. Netflix split apart, Dish announced Blockbuster-branded video services, and then Facebook introduced social video players. We discuss the changes with Ryan Lawler of GigaOm and Andrew Wallenstein of Variety. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 92: The quantified self and the healthy body | Two startups give you feedback on how you walk, move, stand, and sit to make you a more aware and healthier person. | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 91: How the 9/11 attacks changed technology forever | MIT Technology Review editor and publisher Jason Pontin joins Rafe Needleman to discuss how the terrorist attacks ten years ago changed the direction of technology and policy development mostly for the better, but in some cases for the worse. | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 90: PARC CEO on how tech innovation works | The CEO of PARC talks with Rafe Needleman about the history of the famous lab, how to encourage innovation in a country or a company, and what it's like to compete with Google for engineers. | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 89: Apple after Jobs | We all knew this day was coming, but it was still a huge shock when Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs announced on Wednesday that he was resigning his role as CEO. Apple, to many people, is Steve Jobs. We're going to talk today about the future of Apple under its new CEO, Tim Cook. We have three great guests from CNET: Josh Lowensohn, Jay Greene, and Brian Cooley. This was a very lively discussion, don't miss it! | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 88: Patent wars escalate | Google just acquired Motorola's mobile patents. HP just decided to give WebOS the heave-ho, putting its patents in play. Congress is debating fundamental rule changes in the patent system. So it's time to revisit the patent and invention discussion on the Roundtable. To do that, we bring back Nilay Patel, the lawyer-turned-tech journalist from Endgadget and This Is My Next. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Happy 30th Birthday to the IBM PC | The Inventor of Control-Alt-Delete & IBM Engineer David Bradley joins Rafe Needleman on Reporters' Roundtable to discuss the history of the IBM PC celebrating it's 30th birthday. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 87: Happy 30th birthday, IBM PC! | It was 30 years ago today that IBM launched the PC market. We take a look back at the creation of the PC with an interview with Dr. Dave Bradley, the guy who invented Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and look forward with Michael Miller, former editor of PC Magazine. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 86: DefCon and BlackHat show us that everything can be hacked | We talk with our reporters covering the twin security conferences in Las Vegas this week about the massive Shady RAT hack, and research reports on hacking everything from nuclear plants to laptop batteries to insulin pumps. | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 85: The MacBook Air, the Chromebook, and the future of mobile computing | Want to buy yourself an Air? Watch this show first. Today we're talking with CNET mobile computing product experts Donald Bell and Dan Ackerman about the state of the art and the near-term future of mobile computing. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 84:What Spotify means to the music industry | Root Music CEO J Sider and Evolver.fm's Eliot Van Buskirk join Rafe to discuss how the music industry has changed for performers, and what all the new digital services mean for them. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 83: The new social battleground | It's been a big two weeks in social networking. Google+ launched, Myspace got sold, and Facebook launched video chat. To discuss the new landscape, Rafe Needleman talks with Inside Facebook's Josh Constine and MIT Tech Review's Erica Naone. | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 82: Anonymous and Lulzsec | There's a fundamental social shift occurring in the hacker culture and in media. Activists are disrupting major corporate and government Web sites, stealing and leaking sensitive data, and changing how we all use the Web. Join me, Elinor Mills, and Jennifer Granick as we discuss. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 81: Do cell phones cause cancer? | CNET mobile phone editor Kent German and I talk with Dr. Debra Davis, Author of "Disconnect: The Truth about Cell Phone Radiation," about the emerging understanding that we don't quite know the effects of mobile phones on the brain -- especially the brains of children. | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 80: Why are EULAs so hard to read? | Just what are you agreeing to when you click on a license agreement on a software app or Web site? Today we're discussing EULAs, TOSes, AUPs, and other contracts you sign whenever you use technology. With special guest, Attorney Gabriel Ramsey of Orrick. | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 79: Windows 8 and the future of Microsoft | Microsoft introduced Windows 8 to the executive crowd at the D9 conference this week, but the demo followed Google's Eric Schmidt, who clearly implied that Microsoft was irrelevant to the future of technology. So what does Win 8 mean to the world? Jay Greene, Ed Bott, and Rafe Needleman discuss. | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 78: The bubble show | Are we in another tech bubble? LinkedIn went public last week, raising $352 million. The stock quickly shot up, igniting talk that we are entering another period of tech market froth, like we had in 1999. Are we indeed? And if so, is it good or bad for Tech. CNET's Jim Kerstetter and HBR's Eric Hellweg join me to discuss. | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 77: The hackers will always win, with Kevin Mitnick | Convicted -- and rehabilitated -- hacker Kevin Mitnick joins us today to discuss the latest Internet security breaches at Sony, LastPass, Apple, and elsewhere. Can we ever be safe online? Don't miss this show. | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Inside the mind of the Maker Faire | Dale Dougherty, founder of Make Magazine and the Maker Faire, discusses the human need to create, hack, and tinker. Plus, a tour of the Make labs. | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Drones, UAVs, & the unmanned war on terror. | Spencer Ackerman of Wired's Danger Room blog joins us today to discuss the use of unmanned surveillance aircraft in the raid on the bin Laden compound, and the future of this technology for the Army, the Air Force, and other countries' military forces. | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoReporters' Roundtable 74: The location tracking dilemma | Apple, Google, Microsoft, TomTom, and other companies collect and store their users' location data in varying degrees. Why do they do this, and should you care? And if you do, what can you do about it? We discuss this today with CNET's Declan McCullagh as well as with Ted Morgan, the CEO of Skyhook Wireless. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Reporters Roundtable 73: Experts not bullish on RIM | This week, we gather three reporters who cover wireless, trying to find the future path for RIM. Does the security of the service make a difference? The new Playbook tablet? A bit, but if there's a clear way out of the woods, we can't see it yet. | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 40 Episodes |
